Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Fantasy: This won't work because there are all sorts of technical work-arounds and corner cases that it doesn't account for, that us tech people can imagine. Kids will pass around USB boot drives and use them to
Reality: This won't work because NOBODY CARES.
Like, it kinda makes sense if you use computers the way I do, and every device has a password, and if I let anyone else use it they get their own account, but I am NOT NORMAL. People don't do this shit. And for anyone who does, all they need are parental controls.
I feel like a question about OS-level age tracking that would've been obvious to me, were I not a tech person, is: what about shared accounts? I'm not just talking about library computers. Tech people will create a separate account for everyone who uses a device, but I think most people set up one account with no password and never think about it again. If you try to force them to set a password, they will sticky-note it to the screen. How is this going to work in practice?
Commented out almost all of my filters, will more carefully check/document/categorize things as I see them.
Thinking about starting public uBlock filter lists for (individually):
- "Related Content"
- pullquotes
- interrupting popovers
- cookie banners
- autoplaying videos on articles
Since I'm going through the trouble to block those things anyway, might as well share it, right?
How to get things done:
- Break your task into smaller tasks.
- Count the tasks and shuffle them into an Archipelago.
- The next task on my list is in spike cave on the Dark DM bridge. How do I get to the Dark DM bridge???
Esme Povirk
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any engineering problem that isn’t solvable by “hiring a bunch of autistic trans women” isn’t worth solving anyway
Esme Povirk
boosted
Me: Trans people actually make up a smaller percentage of the population than most people think.
*Trans people turn off their cloaking devices to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility*
Me: Oh shit oh fuck there are billions of them.
Hey I made a randomizer, kinda https://github.com/madewokherd/Manual/releases/tag/dragonsweeper-1.1.0
existential prank
Identifying as "playersexual" just to mess with other people's sense of reality.
physical health (~)
I've been dealing with hand pains for a while, and I think I figured out recently that I have a tendency to bend my wrists backwards, and this causes strain. So I'm trying to learn to keep my wrists straight.
Moving that way feels better moment-to-moment, but I don't know yet how much it'll help.
Did the #my9games thing because people in a chat I'm in were doing it. The prompt I was given was "most influential games for you personally". Also I used topsters.org to make the image
What if we were both girls and we played a game together and held opposite sides of the controller and our arms crossed? 😳
Esme Povirk
boosted
I have never come upon a paywall while casually browsing the news and thought, "Let me get my credit card out."
It's always, "I don't need to know that badly."
Esme Povirk
boosted
Call to action to cis people: be assholes anytime you get asked for your sex assigned at birth. Write letters, complain to staff, refuse to answer. Make it impossible to collect sex assigned at birth. Be really offended that anyone would ask you. Make enough noise that if trans people want to quietly not answer or give whatever answer feels correct to them, no one will notice.
food
I just ate the straightest string cheese I've ever encountered. Every little pulled off piece was pretty much uniform thickness.
I am over a month behind on social media and falling more behind every day. I do not plan to make any attempt to reverse this trend.
plurality
I have created an in-system appeals process.
It's generally for small decisions (like "should we get up and drink some water?") where we already know the answer but aren't doing it for a bad reason, often just inertia.
The process consists of someone going "I invoke discernment" and then we use discernment to find the answer (which we already know), and so far that gets whatever's blocking it out of the way.
time management
I've decided not to schedule chores anymore.
In my free time, I will do what I most feel like in the moment. I don't satisfice. I have imperfect memory, so I keep a list of the options (trying to group things that are sufficiently similar). And I have primacy bias, so the things I do get moved to the end.
I suspect I have enough motivation that I still will get things done when I need to. So far that appears to be the case.
Joined Aug 2018
